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Reading is important …

Reading is an essential skill, particularly in this era of the worldwide proliferation of technology and information. The ability to read enables children to understand and interpret the information and images they receive. While it is important that children learn to read for information, we’d like to suggest that it is equally beneficial that parents, guardians, and caregivers model the behavior that reading is FUN and is very much part of everyday life. If children see adults reading, they will imitate them. There are so many daily opportunities to instill the love of reading in the home. We have listed a few of them below:

 

What we can do to encourage reading.

More Reading Tips

Encourage your child to read every day: books, magazines, short stories, newspapers, or poetry.

Read the same books your child is reading so you can share the stories together. Talk about what is going to happen next, have your child make up a new ending for the story, and discuss the characters, plot, and setting.

Take your child to the library to choose new books every week or every two weeks.

Write a story together. Have your child illustrate the story.

Enrich your child’s environment with literacy materials such as books, magazines, newspapers, catalogs, paper, pencils, crayons, paint, and music CD.

Together make a scrapbook of memories of the grade level he or she is in.

Teach your child to use the Internet appropriately. Throw out a phrase, and guide the child through the process of choosing “Key Words” for the Internet search. Check comprehension regularly by making up games or asking questions such as “What kind of person do you think that character is”? (The answers may vary: kind, mean, etc.) Then use those words to build vocabulary.

Encourage your child to make an illustrated “new words” book for his or her grade level.

After a discussion of the elements of drama, take your child to play.
Read lots of poetry to your child, and encourage your child to read and write poetry.

Ask your child to look through the newspaper for information: weather, sports, local events, national news, comics, and movie listings.

Let your child see you reading something every day. It’s called modeling the behavior.